PHP Referral

[kimberly_a]

My Meds Doc referred me to PHP today, and I expect they'll be phoning me on Tuesday to arrange an intake interview. Partial hospitalization again ... yay

Comments

[wild_irises]

*hug* if welcome

[irontongue]

I hope this all goes well. Have your doctors ever considered trying to take you off all of your meds, under close supervision (and probably hospitalization)? Just to see whether the drugs might not be doing what they are supposed to?

[kimberly_a]

I would love to do that (go off the meds under supervision, then add or re-add any necessary meds afterward, one by one), because we're quite certain that one of my meds (Xanax, for anxiety) does its job, but we aren't sure about either of the other long-term psych meds I'm on (gabapantin and lamotrigine), both of which my meds doc has talked about removing from my regimen at various times because he isn't sure they're helping me. During a hypomanic episode isn't the right time to try that sort of thing, but it's definitely something I should discuss with my doc. I'm not at all invested in going "drug-free," as so many bipolar folks are, but it's all so convoluted by years of combined changes & we're so far from using the scientific method at this point that it bugs the hell out of me.

[irontongue]

That all sounds really smart - handling this episode, then trying to figure out the meds. I hope you get to do this, and I'm really glad your meds doctor wants to figure out what's best also.